CGI Bilbo?

[Lalwendë]

Do we need a young Bilbo though? Why not have an old one and keep Ian Holm? After all, the casting directors didn't let the notion of the characters' age stop them from having a 13 year old play Frodo, did it?

[Thenamir]

Dear heavens. Elijah Wood was 19, not 13, when they started filming, and nearly 23 when they finished. Perhaps a bit young to play a 33-plus hobbit, but then again, that's just barely when hobbits come of age, so the look is ptrobably not far off, comparatively speaking.

Frodo was meant to be in his 50s...

[Sauron the White]

If the period of early thirties are equally to much younger humans, what would the hobbit equivelant of the Fifties be?

I think not a man in his late 70's, especially one with health problems.

[Sir Kohran]

Originally Posted by limwen_elensar

Frodo was meant to be in his 50s...

The Ring stopped him from aging:

As time went on, people began to notice that Frodo also showed signs of good 'preservation': outwardly he retained the appearance of a robust and energetic hobbit just out of his tweens. 'Some folk have all the luck,' they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer.



So Frodo looked just out of his teenage years - this is pretty much the age of Elijah over the course of the filming (19-23).